February was a busy month at Panjiva. You can now search from Panjiva’s home page, and our new video tour will give you a sense of how to make the most of Panjiva. (As always, we’d love feedback: josh@panjiva.com.) Also, Panjiva was in the news:

CNN Money: “A search engine for global e-commerce: Panjiva’s Web site works. It can search records from 1.5 million companies in 190 countries. The technology also identifies trends, predicting whether a specific supplier might soon go belly up or projecting which products will be hot in the next holiday season.”

Tom Pinckney’s Blog: “Panjiva’s insight here is that a lot of the things that make web search better also make searching for exporters better. Companies like Alibaba already have directories of millions of exporters. But when you search for a supplier for a specific type of product, it’s sort of like going back to the web before Google. For example, searching for ‘wool sweaters‘ returns a list of over 24,000 different contract manufacturers with no great way to rank them.”

Logistics Management: “Data released this week by Panjiva, an online search engine with detailed information on global suppliers and manufacturers, stated there was a 5 percent decline in the number of global manufacturers shipping to the U.S. from December 2009 to January 2010.”